Price On Request A French 'Royal' silver Soup Tureen, Paris 1809-1819Paris 1809-1819 Length (handle to handle): 36.5 cm Weight: 135 oz (4,196 g) The initial is that of Princess Eulalia (1864-1958), daughter of the Infanta and grandaughter of Queen Isabel II of Spain (r.1833-1865). Following the revolution of 1868 she and her family moved to Paris until her brother was restored to the throne as King Alfonso XII in 1874.Shallow circular on pedestal with conforming plinth on four lion's paw feet, with two swan handles, the rim with an applied band of foliage. Artist Biography:Born in 1763 and becoming a master in 1785, Odiot succeeded his father in the business, steadily building the firm's reputation, coming to a particular notice following the Exposition de l'industrie held in Paris in 1802. Following the bankruptcy, in 1809, of the celebrated neoclassical silversmith Henry Auguste, who at the time was the silversmith to Emperor Napoleon, Odiot was able to purcahse many of his models and designs. Odiot, along with Martin-Guillaume Biennais, soon replaced Auguste as the Napoleon's silversmiths ensuring the success of both firms. Soon Odiot was receiving orders from the French court, including a service made for Napoleon's mother, styled 'Madame Mere'. and as well as from all over Europe and beyond. The Russian's Imperial court's love affair with french silver, most famously realised in the service made for Catherine the great from the Parisian silversmith Jacques Roettiers and his son Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers in 1770 and subsequently presented to her lover Count gregory Orloff continued with commissions from the Russian court to Odiot. Among these important commissions were a massive service for Countess Branicki and Count nikolai Demidoff. Odiot's work during this period is characterised by strong neoclassical forms, ornamented with cast figural elements, attached not by the traditional soldering but with...